"The word 'lawsuit' was never even said nor was ever my intention."

Ironic twist: The victim in question has been attempting to produce a feature film about WorldStarHipHop, which made its name by posting videos of exactly this type of altercation.

Please tell me they got Flipper for the theme music:

The movie wasn't completely awful, but it still has to stand as one of the most incompetent adapted screenplays ever written. I mean, you pretty much can take any random three or four vignettes from the book, film them, toss a few connecting scenes in between, and you've got a far better movie than what they ended up…

I enjoyed the movie too, but you really have to go miles out of your way to avoid the "Girls" comparisons.

Possibly heretical opinion: the first three quarters of this movie are fucking genius, with some of the most underrated comedy writing and acting of the 1990s. The last quarter, with the extended dream sequence, drags the whole thing into the ground.

Totally. A critic who hates a record that later comes to be seen as a classic is still just an individual expressing an individual worldview. That critic can later reconsider that judgment ("you know, maybe 'Paranoid' wasn't actually the end of rock and roll as we know it") or they can double down on it and maybe form…

Remember when he had draft beer in his game room? And referenced his "old fraternity days"?

That's probably the Simpsons line I quote most frequently. Which is all the more impressive when you consider that there's almost never a germane real-life context in which to quote it.

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But as he says, these films may have been conceived with the idea that they *could* become franchises if successful, but their primary function was to be good standalone films. It's not like "Star Wars" is all world-building and setup — it would feel like a perfectly complete film if it had never spawned a sequel.…

To be honest, I'm still not 100% sure who Jim Ghomeshi is. Cosby, on the other hand, is Cosby.

"Cave Bitch" is pretty vile. As is "Nappy Dugout." I can listen to most early Cube and file it as "righteous, if sometimes misdirected, anger," but some of those are so ugly as to be nearly unlistenable.

Even as a wussy little suburban white boy, I tended to see Snoop, Dre and the like as fundamentally entertainers, dudes who were playing tough-guy characters on record. But man, I still remember buying this at age 11 or so, putting on "When Will They Shoot" and actually feeling legitimately scared. Like, "I enjoy this…

I feel like the last GTA attempted to acknowledge this through the Trevor character, sort of imagining what a character composed of nothing but the raging ids of its most destructive players would look like. But playing him really wasn't as stupidly fun as JC2.

There have been two occasions in my life when first hearing a song lyric has caused me to literally fall out of my chair. One is the opening couplet in Biggie's "Me and My Bitch." The other is the abovementioned Mountain Goats lyric. So I guess the "Big Poppa" reference is appropriate.

It's true. It's kind of ludicrous.

I have it on relatively good authority that Tom and Dave are both extremely nice, off-puttingly friendly dudes in person. Jeff was supposedly very cranky, but harmless. Kerry is apparently a prick.

"It's De La on the cut, lifting 6' on your stitchy crew
I'm Miles Ahead of you, you can sip my Bitches Brew"

A year or two ago I saw Thom Yorke out in the wild. He was drinking a Heineken straight out of the bottle, holding court at the head of a table, shooting the shit, telling stories, laughing frequently. He had a strong "hipster dad" vibe going on. He seemed like a man who was content with his lot in life.